I naturally agree with MMario, being a Threadhead, but to add two new cents to this I have noticed ironically that an increasing number of song threads are not getting past the first two or three responses, because the answer is in the DT now. There used to be more threads about songs because people here were still looking around for the lyrics, and in the meantime they would chat about them, and spark a more interesting exchange of lyrics. The site is probably just getting mature (not in the joke sense, for sure). The people here have chopped a lot of wood, and now they are sitting by the fireside reaping some of the benefits. We could probably start at the "A"s and work our way through the DT to polish, query or add new verses, but that is not like the earlier spontaneous stuff when we were filling in the basic gaps.

The law of percentages is beginning to catch up on queries for English-speaking folk songs that people out there have heard -- I mean, we are up to almost 10,000 songs here. I think it is just a rhythm. I believe we have only scratched the surface of folk music here, but it is a pretty good surface. We could also dig for more foreign material or more specialty material: German, Italian, Spanish, French. But we would have to actively proselytize. And to be blunt, I don't recall reading an Art Thieme posting in awhile asking for information from Mudcatters about some new field of folk music, other ranges of folk songs, new artists, etc.
I am not attacking you personally, but we are past the swapping of lyrics to "Down in The Valley" stage. If you want interesting folk song discussions, start generating them!!! yours, Peter T.